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RE: minutes from today (team b)

From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:10:16 -0700
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To: "Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG" <rscano@iwa-italy.org>, "Wendy Chisholm" <wendy@w3.org>, <public-wcag-teamb@w3.org> 



> For action item 3 (John):
> Yesterday I've checked with a HTML WG Member and he said that is not
> possible to have multiple values for xml:lang in XHTML 1.1 and in XHTML 2.0
> Also similar problem for hreflang. BTW? Have we considered the use of
> hreflang somewhere in our documents?

Why do we think it is necessary to accessibility to mark all the languages used in a document? Isn't it sufficient to indicate the default language (even if that language is only the most used language in the document), and then to mark up language changes within the documenht?

Loretta
Received on Thursday, 15 September 2005 13:13:06 GMT

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